A report from Monroe County Medical Examiner Nadia Granger illustrate rapidly increasing death toll from the use of heroin, opioids, fentanyl and related drugs. In 2011, those drugs were blamed for 11 deaths in the ten-county Rochester region. That number grew annually to 95 in 2014, then shot up to 206 last year. 169 of […]
The Rochester Police Department and the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office have issued a joint warning about what may be a lethal batch of street drugs. Sheriff Patrick O’Flynn and Police Chief Michael Ciminelli say there have been four deaths in the city over the past two days under circumstances indicating they were caused by heroin […]
Governor Cuomo went to Buffalo today to sign a bill to help heroin and opioid drug addicts get treatment. Cuomo is touring the state promoting the bill. It requires insurance companies to pay for greater access to treatment programs for people trying to fight addiction. It made it through the state legislatur e this year […]